70, 000 National Service Personnel Stranded

A disturbing development indicates that a huge number of service personnel posted by the National Service Secretariat (NSS) to various institutions across the country for their mandatory national service, have been left stranded, after been rejected by the institutions they were posted to.

The NSS is now facing the challenge of reposting them. Shockingly, some state institutions including, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) among other agencies, are involved in this reprehensible situation.

According to the NSS director, nearly 70,000 candidates are available for deployment. Also culpable are private organizations like the Bank of Africa, Accra Brewery Limited and several agencies. Apart from turning away the personnel who were officially posted, some officials are involved in daylight nepotism by submitting the names of their wards, their family members and their friends to the NSS to have them posted to their preferred institutions for their service. Some personnel who reported at their designated places with posting letters were shockingly told by the management to go back, because they had already selected their preferred candidates and submitted their names to the NSS, therefore, there are no vacancies for them.

Source: The Herald